Kings Unit 7

Thursday 12th November, 1938

Society

KRISTALLNATCH: THE HORROR FOR JEWS

Hitler and Goebbels found the proper pretext to start an offensive against the jews through a murder that occured in Paris. Actually, the Nazi Party has planned this night a long time ago.

Herschel Grynszpan

On the morning of the 9th of November, Ernst Eduard vom Rath, secretary of the German embassy in Paris, died after fighting for his life in the hospital because of seven gunshot wounds. Two days earlier, a Polish teenager of Jewish ascent named Herschel Grynszpan fired at him without any known political motive. This murder was spread in Germany by the nazis as a hate crime towards the Aryan race, even Hitler said: "All  jews are guilty of this murder". But the most of the people with whom we have spoken agree that Herschel committed the murder because of his parents's unfair ejection from Germany at the end of October. 

In a meeting with Goebbels, his propaganda minister, Hitler takes the reins of the reaction to the attack and decrees the beginning of the riot against the Jewish people.

The nazi's attacks began the early morning of the 9th and 10th November and we think that is the start of the nazisim  terror for jews: 7500 businesses, warehouses, bookstores, over 1300 Jewish synagogues, schools and hospitals burned to the hatred of a crowd led and directed by the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Hitler Youth, and supported by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Gestapo and other police forces.

One of the concentration camps

The Jews were expelled from the buildings and hundreds of them were attacked before an enraged society that responded to the success of Nazi propaganda.

The next morning, more than thirty thousand Germans were arrested for being Jews and began deportations to concentration camps like Arbeitsdorf, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen.

Burned synagogue

This is the testimony of one of the affected jews:

"Yesterday I saw the synagogue burn from the window of my house, when we were going to bed then some men came, took us out to the street, searched the house, took all the things from the cabinets and threw them on the floor; They took my father."

         

The Dictators.

Hitler killed himself!

Last 30 of May Hitler commited suicide in his bunker with his wife.

After he realised he was going to be captured by the soviets who were crossing Berlin he decided to kill himself with his wife and part of his entourage. Because of the fear of been used like an humillating symbol for the Nazi party as Mussolini he ordered to burn his body.

Some of his officials confessed that he since the 22 of April was trough a nervous crisis when he realized the inminent defeat of the Nazi`s, the oficials also confessed that because of the crisis he started shouting the generals that they were betraying him. After that Hitler was in a bad psychologically condition. Then he expressed the intention to kill him self, and later he asked the doctor to recommend him a fast and painless way to die, his doctor recommend him to take cyanide pill and simultaneously a shoot in his head.

Some of his officials have related all the story since 28 April until his suicide.

The 28 April there was his emotional bankruptcy when he discover that Heinrich Himmler was trying to negociate a treaty of peace, he conisedered as an act of cobardy and betrayal, he considered and though that all his generals were againts him, he started to be so crazy. He started to think that the cyanide pills were false and he gave one to his doctor to prove it in his dog, Blondi, the dog died in a second.

After the midnight of 29 April he married in a little ceremony in the bunker with his girlfriend Eva Braun.

The last the 30 April in the morning he said bye to all the doctors, later he said all the steps they must do after he commited his suicide with his and wifes bodies. Later he had a silent luch with his secretaries, at the end he gave to each one a cyanide pill. At 15:30 he met with his wife in the map room and also with his helpers who closed the door and rest for about 15 minutes outside, when they entered the room they saw Hitler on the sofa with a strange grimace in his face, a shot in his head and a blood column over his face, his wife Eva Braun didn´t reach the point to shot his gun, the cyanide pill actuated and killed her faster than what she expected.


Heinz Linge made some declarations about the scene of the suicide, here there are his exact words:

"When I opened the door of his room, I found a scene that I will never forget: to the left of the sofa was Hitler, sitting and dead. Beside her, also dead, Eva Braun. On Hitler's right temple, a wound the size of a small coin could be seen, and two strands of blood ran down his cheek. A puddle of blood the size of a plate had formed on the carpet next to the sofa. The walls and couch were also spattered with spurts of blood. Hitler's right hand rested on his knee, palm facing up. The left hand hung limp. Next to Hitler's right foot, there was a gun of the Walther PPK caliber 7.65 mm type. Next to the left foot, another of the same model, but of caliber 6.35 mm. Hitler wore his gray military uniform and wore the gold badge of the Party, the Iron Cross of First Class and the medal of the wounded of the First World War; In addition, he was wearing a white shirt with a black tie, black pants, socks and black leather shoes."                  
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It isn't known where are the bodies actually, but is suposed by many people that they had been burned and hided somewhere, but it isn't a confirmed theory yet.

Is it the end of the hell?

 

     

          



                  

           

UNIT 7 - THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND DECOLONISATION

We are going to focus on a new unit related with the II World War and Decolonisation. The biggest conflict in the world History was a terrible event that showed the worst face of the human being...

We have visited Auschwitz...now we are going to study...

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Unit 7 - The IIWW and decolonisation de IES - ORNIA - LA BAÑEZA (LEÓN)

GROUP 2- HITLER´S VICTORY

HITLER'S VICTORY

Adolf Hitler has won the elections. 

As you all know, Hitler ran against Hindenburg in the 1932 presidential elections. Although he lost the elections to Hindenburg, his party became a really influencial political party, as well as Hitler, who became a powerful politician. After his appointment as Chancellor last year after two elections On 30 January 1933, the new cabinet was sworn in during a brief ceremony in Hindenburg's office. The NSDAP gained three posts: Hitler was named chancellor,Wilhelm Frick Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Göring Minister of the Interior for Prussia. Hitler had insisted on the ministerial positions as a way to gain control over the police in much of Germany. 

Some people say that the turning point which led to Hitler’s victory was the fire that destroyed the Reichstag last February, started by the communists and the Reichstag Fire Decree that came soon after. After that, 4000 communists were arrested and incarcelated without a trial. During the campaign, Hitler promoted anti-communist and paramilitary propaganda. Yesterday, March 6th, the election day, NSDPA’s share increased a 43.9% over the last election. Now, the NSDPA is the most powerful party in the country and has the highest number of seats in the parliament. Now, Hitler’s mission is to negotiate and form a Government. Long may he rule!